No doubt, the wireless industry is ready to celebrate the Senate committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation’s approval of the Mobile Now Act, which is designed to boost the development of 5G by making more spectrum available for commercial use and reducing red tape for building networks….Last year, the FCC kicked off its NPRM [Notice of Proposed Rule Making], proposing new flexible use service rules in the 28 GHz, 37 GHz, 39 GHz and 64-71 GHz bands. Comments on the NPRM were due last month, and plenty rolled in. Pretty much everybody applauds the commission for taking steps to make more of this high-bandwidth spectrum available. There was a time, even a few short years ago, when skeptics didn’t think millimeter band spectrum would be worth much to wireless operators. Researchers at places like NYU Wireless proved them wrong, and now U.S. operators are talking about how they need low, middle and high band spectrum. Any spectrum at all, pretty much, anywhere.

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